Our Contributors

Tom Achoki, a former Sloan fellow at MIT, is Co-Founder of the Africa Institute for Health Policy.

Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School in Berlin and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Barak Barfi is a former research fellow at New America and a former visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.

María Fernanda Espinosa, a former president of the UN General Assembly, is Executive Director of GWL Voices and Co-Chair of the Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery Project. She was a member of the COP29 International Advisory Committee.

Markéta Gregorová is a member of the European Parliament.

Doris Hafenbradl is Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of Electrochaea, a startup offering a power-to-methane solution for energy storage.

Christy Hoffman is General Secretary of UNI Global Union.

Charles A. Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, served on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Cina Lawson is Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation of Togo.

Soohyung Lee, Professor of Economics and Data Analytics at Seoul National University, is a member of the Monetary Policy Board of the Bank of Korea.

Lenny Mendonca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is a former chief economic and business adviser to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

Justina Nixon-Saintil is Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at IBM.

Walter O. Ochieng is a physician and global health researcher at the Africa Institute for Health Policy.

Guillermo Ortiz, a former finance minister of Mexico and governor of Banco de Mexico, is Co-Chair of the G30 Working Group on Latin America.

Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021). 

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Liberia, is Founder of the EJS Presidential Center for Women and Development and Co-Chair of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Samia Suluhu Hassan is President of the United Republic of Tanzania.

Xianghong Wang is a professor in the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China.

Huang Yiping, Dean of the National School of Development and a professor at Peking University, is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China.

Sinan Ülgen, a former Turkish diplomat, is Director of EDAM, an Istanbul-based think tank, and a senior policy fellow at Carnegie Europe.